Editor's Report

Summary · Editorial Changes · Future

Summary

N1638=04-0079, Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++, contains the body of the standard, with all of the changes made at the Sydney meeting. It has diff marks reflecting these changes. Note that the diff marks are generated from the troff source files, and the results go through some further processing before being typeset; one consequence is that diff marks sometimes appear a line or two away from the actual difference, and sometimes persist for several lines, especially in tables and footnotes. The marks should be taken as a guide to where changes occurred, and not as literal truth.

Partway through Clause 24, Iterators, there's a very long series of diff marks, extending into Clause 25. This is a diff artifact, and should not be taken seriously.

There were a few places where the changes described in the defect reports did not accurately reflect the intent of the report. When the intent was clear and the correct wording was obvious, I made the correction. I also made some editorial changes.

My thanks to Barry Hedquist, John Spicer, and Steve Adamczyk for their proofreading. If we're lucky, our jetlag-induced errors didn't overlap.

Editorial Changes

• Core Issue 421: Literally, the proposed change replaces a lengthy paragraph with a short sentence. From the discussion, it looks like the intended change was actually just an addition to one sentence, so that's the change I made.
• Core Issue 424: I made this a separate paragraph rather than appending it to paragraph 2.
• I changed the marker [basic.lookup.koenig] to [basic.lookup.argdep].
• As requested by the Core Working Group, I hyphenated "nontype", "nondependent", "nondeduced", and "nontemplate" throughout.
• LWG Issue 44
  • For paragraph 5 of the list of changes to clause 27 I added a call to to_int_type, so the text reads
    

            traits::eq_int_type(traits::to_int_type(c), delim)

    instead of the proposed

            traits::eq_int_type(c, delim)

  • Paragraph 7 of the list of changes to clause 27 calls for changes to [lib.istream::sentry]/6; that paragraph was removed in TC1, so I didn't change it.
  • Paragraphs 3-6 of the list of changes to clause 21 all call for changing

        at(xpos+I) == str.at(I)

    to

        traits::eq(at(xpos+I), str.at(I))

    but the actual code is

        at(xpos) == str.at(I)

    which is correct, so the change I made is:

        traits::eq(at(xpos), str.at(I))

• LWG Issue 226: Reworded the various Requires clauses to better match the style used in other parts of the WP.
• LWG Issue 359: Reworded slightly.
• LWG Issue 379: There is actually another sentence after the text that's quoted in the issues list. The resolution says to replace the last sentence of the paragraph; it's clear from the discussion that the intention was to replace the last sentence of the quoted text, and not the last sentence of the paragraph. So I changed the next-to-last sentence.
• LWG Issue 389: The proposed resolution says to change

      T operator[](size_t const);

  to

      const T& operator[](size_t const);

  This is obviously a typo, and the const after the argument should be after the closing parenthesis.
• LWG Issue 395: Reworded. In particular, changed the note into normative text. The change is pointless otherwise.
• LWG Issue 403: Added "Throws: Nothing." instead of the proposed text. That's the form used in other parts of the standard.

Future

Yes, there will be Bookmarks and a Table of Contents. Between now and the next meeting I'll be converting the base text from troff to LaTeX, which will improve maintainability, simplify builds, and provide more flexibility. That's obviously an exacting job. Adobe^® Acrobat^® can compare the text in two .PDF files, which will help ensure that the conversion doesn't change any of the text. However, this will require some careful proofreading, so please be prepared to volunteer to help. It will be worth it: when we have LaTeX source I can generate Bookmarks automatically.